The high mountains are a refuge for the stags, [and] the rock for the rabbits.
Hebrew / Jewish
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)
Psalms
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows his going down.
Thou didst make darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad:
[even] young lions roaring for prey, and to seek meat for themselves from God.
The sun arises, and they shall be gathered together, and shall lie down in their dens.
Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour till evening.
How great are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou wrought them all: the earth is filled with thy creation.
[So is] this great and wide sea: there are things creeping innumerable, small animals and great.
There go the ships; [and] this dragon whom thou hast made to play in it.
All wait upon thee, to give them [their] food in due season.
When thou hast given [it] them, they will gather [it]; and when thou hast opened thine hand, they shall all be filled with good.
But when thou hast turned away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou wilt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust.
Thou shalt send forth thy Spirit, and they shall be created; and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
Let the glory of the Lord be for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works;
who looks upon the earth, and makes it tremble; who touches the mountains, and they smoke.
I will sing to the Lord while I live; I will sing praise to my God while I exist.
Let my meditation be sweet to him: and I will rejoice in the Lord.
Let the sinners fail from off the earth, and transgressors, so that they shall be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul.
Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; declare his works among the heathen.
Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works.
Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice.
Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened; seek his face continually.
Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
[ye] seed of Abraam, his servants, [ye] children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generations:
which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and [he remembered] his oath to Isaac.
And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;
saying, To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:
when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it.
And they went from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people.
He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes:
[saying], Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread.
He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave.
They hurt his feet with fetters; his soul passed into iron,
until the time that his cause came on; the word of the Lord tried him as fire.
The king sent and loosed him; [even] the prince of the people, and let him go free.
He made him lord over his house, and ruler of all his substance;
to chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Cham.
And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.
And he turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
He sent forth Moses his servant, [and] Aaron whom he had chosen.
He established among them his signs, and [his] wonders in the land of Cham.
He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they rebelled against his words.
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
Their land produced frogs abundantly, in the chambers of their kings.
He spoke, and the dog-fly came, and lice in all their coasts.
He turned their rain into hail, [and sent] flaming fire in their land.
And he smote their vines and their fig-trees; and broke every tree of their coast.
He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable,
and devoured all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
He smote also every first-born of their land, the first-fruits of all their labour.
And he brought them out with silver and gold; and there was not a feeble one among their tribes.
Egypt rejoiced at their departing; for the fear of them fell upon them.
He spread out a cloud for a covering to them, and fire to give them light by night.
They asked, and the quail came, and he satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
He clave the rock, and the waters flowed; rivers ran in dry places.
For he remembered his holy word, which [he promised] to Abraam his servant.
And he brought out his people with exultation, and his chosen with joy;
and gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labours of the people;
that they might keep his ordinances, and diligently seek his law.
Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy [endures] for ever.
Who shall tell the mighty acts of the Lord? [who] shall cause all his praises to be heard?
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times.
Remember us, O Lord, with the favour [thou hast] to thy people: visit us with thy salvation;
that we may behold the good of thine elect, that we may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that we may glory with thine inheritance.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have transgressed, we have done unrighteously.
Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders, and remembered not the multitude of thy mercy; but provoked [him] as they went up by the Red Sea.
Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might cause his mighty power to be known.
And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as through the wilderness.
And he saved them out of the hand of them that hated [them], and redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy.
The water covered those that oppressed them: there was not one of them left.
Then they believed his words, and celebrated his praise.
They made haste, they forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel.
And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the dry [land].
And he gave them their request, and sent fulness into their souls.
They provoked Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the congregation of Abiron.
And a fire was kindled in their congregation, and a flame burnt up the sinners.
And they made a calf in Choreb, and worshipped the graven image,
and they changed their glory into the similitude of a calf that feeds on grass.
They forgot God that saved them, who had wrought great deeds in Egypt;
wondrous [works] in the land of Cham, and terrible things at the Red Sea.
So he said that he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn [him] away from the fierceness of his anger, so that he should not destroy them.
Moreover they set at nought the desirable land, and believed not his word.
And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.
So he lifted up his hand against them, to cast them down in the wilderness;
and to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.
They were joined also to Beelphegor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. And they provoked him with their devices;
and destruction was multiplied among them.
Then Phinees stood up, and made atonement: and the plague ceased.
And it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations for ever.
They provoked him also at the water of Strife, and Moses was hurt for their sakes;
for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke [unadvisedly] with his lips.
They destroyed not the nations which the Lord told them [to destroy];
but were mingled with the heathen, and learned their works.
And they served their graven images; and it became an offence to them.
And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils,